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May 8, 1923.

Patented 'May 8, `1923.

JOHN JEFFERSON KENY'ON, or Dn'rnorr, MICHGAN.

WASHING MACHINE.

Application filed February 16, 1922. Serial No. 536,933.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN JEFFERSON 'KEvYoN7 a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at the city of Detroit, in the county of IVayne, in the 'State lof Michigan, United States of America, have only more thoroughly wash the clothes but also require less power than the at present in use.

A. further and to so construct the. machine that there will be no necessity of turning the clothes once they are placed in the machine.

A still further object is to more readily release the vacuum cups from contact with machines the clothes and thereby obviate the necessity of having to release the vacuum cups in order that the clothes may be turned.

To effect these objects myxinvention consists of a supplemental bottom located slightly above the ordinary bottom and preferably of an open work construction, such as wire mesh or a like construction, adapt- ,ed to produce 4the same results and which I co-acts with the vacuum cups in the manner,

which I shall presently describe. v

.Fig 1 represents a perspective v1ewof vmy washing machine, the side being broken away to disclose the interior. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the washingmachine with the top removed, one of the vacuum cups and the perforated false bot'- tom being broken away to expose the arms on which the perforated false bottom is seated.

Fig. 3 is an elevational viewof a broken away portlon of the interior of the machine,

showing the action of one of the `vacuum Vcups on the clothes contained therein.

Like characters of reference indicate cor-v responding parts in the different views.

1 is the washing machine. 2 is the drum thereof. 3 are the legs. 4 sleeve extending upwardly through the centre of the bottom' 5 of the drum. 6 are diametrically positioned vacuum cups mounted on the extremities of the arms 7 which are secured to the rod 8 in the vicinity of its upper end, said rod being most important`l object visA is a vertical housed in the sleeve 4 and pivotally connected at its lower end to the oscillating arm 9. v f L i l 10 is a perforated false bottom, seated onl the radially extending larms 11 which are provi-ded with the sluice holes '12, said arms being secure/d at their inner ends to the sleeve 4, and at their outer ends to an annular ring 13, which fitting tightly around the interior periphery of the bottom of the drum, serves the dual purpose of rigidly securing the arms 11 forated bottom 10. l v

The operation of the device is. as .follows: l' v My vacuum washing machine operates in the customary manner, that is, the rod 8,

and consequentlyv the vacuum cups 6 are 9, which is pivotally connected to the lower extremity of the said rod 8. The oscillating arm'being actuated by any suitable power or manual means.

In the machines at present in use, the vacuum cup or cups' compress the clothes into a compact mass in the bottom of the drum, 4thus preventing aA cleansing flow of water underneath and through the clothes, and at the same time through the inactionL of the water create such a vacuum that the clothes cling to Vacuum cups through the greater part of each stroke, thus wasting a great deal of power' and time. I have overcome this defect by inserting a perforated false bottom in the drum, the bot p i tom being preferably constructed of stout galvanized iron netting ory any suitable perforated or nette-d material. This false botf tom is seated on the annular rim 13 and the arms or supports 11. These arms yare provided with the sluice holes .12,'thus allow ing a perfect circulation of water.

From this lconstruction it will readily be seen that the upper movement of the ,vacuum cups draws the water fromun'derneath the false bottom upv through the clothes,V and ex# pels it on the return stroke, thus .ensuring a continuous stream of water .through the clothesthroughout the whole washing operation. In washing machines of,v the vacuum cup type it is the general practice to give the vacuum cups a rotary as well as a vertical movement in order to bring the tion ofthe clothes. The resultant action andsupporting the perv `cups in contact with the whole upperl porof this rotary movement is provided for in my device by the sluiceholes 12 which allow the water toconstantly flow, that is, when the Water is Withdrawn through the clothes from one section it is immediately replaced by walter flowing downwardly through the clothes at another point.

From the above it Will be seen that I have devised a means of keeping' the water in constant circulation through the clothes in the machine, thus insuring an even cleansing.

lVhat I lclaim as my invention is:

In a washing machine, the combination witha tub, of a ring resting on the bottom of the tub and having an inwardly extending top flange, a sleeve disposed in the ycentre of the ring and extending through flange of the ring andI a rod extending I through said sleeve and carrying vacuum cups above said false bottom.

-Signed at Toronto this 28thday of J anuary 1922.

JOHN JEFFERSON KENYON.

In the resence ofl". RUNDER, H., BENTLEY. 

